Ellen G. White Writings

2061 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 13, 1893, page 226 paragraph 2

… a fig tree in his vineyard, to which for three years he has come looking for fruit. To the words, “Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?” the vine dresser says, “Let …

2062 The Present Truth, vol. 10 March 8, 1894, page 148 paragraph 1

… barren fig tree. Mark 11:22. They are no less applicable to each one of us to-day than they were to the little companies who followed Jesus in His walks about Judea …

2063 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 9, 1894, page 497 paragraph 8

… a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years …

2064 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 804 paragraph 3

… , and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it.” Deuteronomy …

2065 The Present Truth, vol. 11 June 20, 1895, page 389 paragraph 3

“All thy strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs; if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.” Chap. 3:12 .

2066 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 3, 1896, page 784 paragraph 14

… the fig tree shall not blossom,” says Habakkuk, “neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock …

2067 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 1, 1897, page 401 paragraph 1

“Every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.” Luke 6:43 .

2068 The Present Truth, vol. 13 July 1, 1897, page 401 paragraph 5

… good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit, neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do …

2069 The Present Truth, vol. 13 August 12, 1897, page 499 paragraph 3

… . The fig-tree was also obedient. Mark 11:13, 14, 20. The unbroken colt bare Him through the crowd that shouted and waved palm-branches, as steadily as the oldest …

2070 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 5, 1898, page 275 paragraph 6

… the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that He …

2071 The Present Truth, vol. 14 September 29, 1898, page 618 paragraph 3

If you should very much want some roses, and should sow poppy seeds, would you get any roses? Oh, no; all your wishes could never make roses grow from weeds, nor from anything hut rose trees. You cannot gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles.”

2072 The Present Truth, vol. 14 December 22, 1898, page 815 paragraph 10

“The poet gathers fruit from every tree, Yea, grapes from thorns and figs from thistles he. Plucked by his hand, the basest wood that grows Towers to a lily, reddens to a rose.”

2073 The Present Truth, vol. 15 June 22, 1899, page 394 paragraph 9

… the fig tree upon which Jesus found no fruit, “but leaves only.” See also what He says in John 15. about unfruitful branches: “Every branch that beareth not fruit …

2074 The Present Truth, vol. 15 June 29, 1899, page 401 paragraph 1

“The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.... The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.” Song of Solomon 2:11-13 .

2075 The Present Truth, vol. 15 June 29, 1899, page 410 paragraph 4

… or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit …

2076 The Present Truth, vol. 15 July 13, 1899, page 436 paragraph 4

4. And all the host of heaven shall waste away; And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; And all their host shall wither; As the withered leaf falleth from the vine, And as the blighted leaf from the fig tree.

2077 The Present Truth, vol. 15 November 2, 1899, page 692 paragraph 6

… the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut …

2078 Prophetic Lights, p. 43.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)